“We are talking to Hyperloop to have a line,” said councilor Barry Chang during the meeting. “If this comes to a realization, it only would take five minutes from DeAnza College to downtown San Jose instead of a couple hours.”

The revelation came just before the council voted down a proposal that would have put a new tax on the ballot to raise money for transportation solutions to address the city’s traffic problems. The proposed tax would have been levied on medium and large companies in the city based on total number of employees. The vast majority of revenue from such a tax would be paid by Apple, which plans to have over 12,000 people working in its new campus in the city.

Michael Foulkes, Apple’s director of state and local government affairs, spoke at the meeting in opposition to the proposed ballot measure and although he did not mention hyperloop specifically, he did suggest that city officials work with Apple’s transportation experts on “forward-thinking solutions” to “do what we do in Cupertino and at Apple, which is really be creative and find solutions for the long-term.”

The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that Chang and Cupertino Mayor Darcy Paul have met with startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), which has been touring the world signing deals to pursue potential hyperloop lines in places as disparate as Cleveland and Ukraine.

“At this point we have taken no formal action and have no official position on any specific transit mode or alignment,” Paul told me via email Thursday. “Personally, I am actively involved in trying to get as many options as possible on the table.”

Take a tour of Hyperloop One’s Devloop facility

Chang and Apple did not respond to requests for further comment. An HTT spokesperson declined to provide a comment.